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So some GOP rep from Florida has introduced a bill to ban firearm "rate increasers." If what MAC says in the video below is true (I have not yet read the language of the bill) then this is a very slippery slope indeed. If an increased rate is to be outlawed, doesn't that call into question what a "normal" rate is? Definitely ripe for deliberate misinterpretation.

Besides, I can bump fire a rifle with my finger only. Does that make it a "rate increasing device"?

So some GOP rep from Florida has introduced a bill to ban firearm "rate increasers." If what MAC says in the video below is true (I have not yet read the language of the bill) then this is a very slippery slope indeed. If an increased rate is to be outlawed, doesn't that call into question what a "normal" rate is? Definitely ripe for deliberate misinterpretation.

Besides, I can bump fire a rifle with my finger only. Does that make it a "rate increasing device"?

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the manufacture, possession,or transfer of any part or combination of parts that is designedand functions to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle butdoes not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machinegun, and forother purposes.

Way to broad this needs to be specific to a named item.. Bump stocks to me serve no purpose in my life so if they go I don't cre but if they try to use them to broadly cover whatever may come to mind is out.

What happens if my finger is faster than other people do they ban my finger??? Not joking either.

Exactly, it's like MAC said in that video, if a certain rate of fire is deemed to be "normal" then does that mean competition target triggers with a short take up now count as "rate increasers"?

Will anything lighter than a 20 pound trigger with 3 inches of take up be considered a rate increasing device? By the language of the bill, it could be if some regulatory asshats decided so. And that would be a question of when, not if.

This is particularly troublesome to be introduced by a Republican in a Republican-controlled Congress with a Republican in the White House. A lot of these sh1theads might be inclined to vote for it, thinking they have some sort of implicit permission since "our side" is in charge.